Nintendo Switch Diagnostic using USBC Test Board - Faulty Charging Port Replacement 

Database is super cool idea! Open Measurement Database, that is something that whole repair industry will participate!

Thats why I like your videos. You go out of your way to figure new stuff out. Looking in the Port is the easy way but for different troubleshootings this is worth gold.

I have been watching every video on this channel for months now and I must say you sir are the best. Keep doing what you do and remain humble and down to earth.

It great how you explain everything you do and why. Knowing why is important ✌️

Hello, You should put some solder on the PADs of the USB-C tester Board to have longer life of it.

Thank you alex, thank you. Your explainings are amazing. I love it very much and i appreciate it when you do such videos. Thank you for sharing your experience and your knowledge with us. Its really impressive how much you do for us, for your fans and your community. You show us new gadgets, new tools and you dont just show us them, you explain it very good. So much and good information. Thats the way the „right to repair“ should work. Thank you. I am so proud and happy about it that i found your channel 1 1/2 year ago

Thinking outside the box and being a natural problem solver and creating your own solutions is a Renaissance Man in my book. :). I can relate. Keep the energy going brother. Bless Bless you, - Ari

U are my favourite channel on RU-vid. This is a great idea and will help so many that are starting out. I wanna learn more and hopefully open my own repair shop. Pity u don't have online course. I'd say u would make an awesome teacher. I'm in Ireland and I'm looking for somewhere to learn board repair.

Beautiful work Mr. Alex ! ! !

So much informations on this channel. Very helpful.

You have exceptional skills! 👍

I love how you take time to explain things I think that is a great idia

Always watching from Santa Rosa Laguna Phillipines. God bless for sharing

Hi from Greece.I want to say a big big thank you for the knowledge who give as and for your time who spend for all that amazing teaching video.

Clever 💪 thanks for sharing your experience 👍👍

Another good and informative repair video 👍

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 Useful initiative for beginners 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

You ask what we think? Well, you are an artist!

Good Thought process of making reading database for further troubleshooting reference !!! Good Job as always !!! Better Than Factory 😁 👍👍👍👍👍

I'm definitely going to get one of these boards. But the only thing that may throw us repair people off is that these values may change slightly when small hardware revisions are made that we are not aware of at the time. So perhaps marking down mfg dates of these units is also a good idea.

Good idea about the database👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

That's my switch thank you so much won't let the kids get it anymore

excellent as usual

جـــــزاك الله عـــــنا خيرا الجــــــــــزاء

Thanks Alex for bringing so much value and caring about everyone else by suggesting a data base for all faults and what they mean. When you bring value to others unconditionally the higher power aka GOD brings everything that you need and want to compensate for your love to help others succeed in tech space or any space. -God bless, - Ari

work smarter, not harder. nice job!

I like using breakout boards/connectors for all kinds of items. It can be a good step in early diagnosis before disassembly. Don't have a USB-C yet though.

Real genius....great idea..

Nice job and video like always

Like always a cup of coffee and watching my friend make magic!!!! Where did you get these testers?

thank you man

Love you from lebanon ❤

متميز دأما يعطيك العافيه بالتوفيق

Very useful

Very Nice 👍. Perhaps of interest to you, NF, might be an HP SIGNATURE ANALYZER. This is an obsolete, PCB troubleshooting tool, the readings from which were included in service manuals by big boys like Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix and the Military. Today, it is still a great tool for comparing identical PCB's. Just like your new port testers, you must establish reference readings from a working device. You may recognize this device from early in your career. They're still available on eBay. Cheers.

I have a black screen problem on a Switch too. Hope you figure it out because it wasn't the M92T36 chip for me. Good video!

Profesional 👍

Hi there Northridge would love to see a video on Nintendo Switch Black Screen (has backlight) fix!!!👍👍

Hello,was looking to purchase the trystar board tester on my last order but did not find it on the site, but will definitely needs those testing boards thanks Warren .

thanks

Love you from nepal ❤️ You are my hero sir

BOSS LEVEL!

Nice

Nice - excellent plan of attack

Forensic electronic metadata harvesting 👏🤜🤛

Love from Kerala

We can go a step ahead and have an Arduino make the readings with a little LCD that let us select the device and tell us if there is a "out of normal" reading, just by connecting the device. As a matter of fact I will build it, write the program and send it to you and tell me if it works in a "production environment"

What solder/rework station do you use? Or which do you recomend?

I like how do you work and thinking You are using notepad :), you should have software developer background :)

02:55 this is an example what i have asked for "wifi chip controll measuring " İn the privious video . idea is that: Does it work if you meausure the capasitors which they are around the good working wifi chip and take notes and then After if you get a another tablet which has wifi problem ,you may be able to compare the condansator's values to see if the wifi chip good or bad? (İ am mentioning abot the chip which has no signifuture on it as a burned or etc) 17:49 for iphones, there is a database software to see the pin measuring

Smarter not harder, you could have a triage dept of people that do nothing but use these tools you are developing to pre-diagnose before going back for repair. Building a repair history that is searchable will aid you to move things along.

There are 2 revisions of the fat switch, maybe their readings can be different too ?

I've got some questions: * Would that also work on the Switch Lite? * How's the progress on the toolbox you're going to sell? * When is it that you're going to sell the 8C Zener Diode for the Switch Lite?

Question for the electronic engineers. Is there a way that the process of taking resistance of each pin one at a time can be implemented into a chip that does resistance for all pins at the same time and output data to say a computer via usb? Is there a chip that exists that can do that?

Do you replace the thermal paste on the cpu when you take apart the device or is the paste still good that was on it already

What are the cleaning wipes you use please?

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There could also be an interaction of problems which would distort the results, watch out for that

Are you bringing "Better Than Factory" t shirts out Alex?.

Brother I know for sure you can cover the Right to Repair topic very well…Please buddy include the right to repair topic on your next video This topic shouldn’t be ignored especially by technicians

Can you please teach us how to use the micro dock flex tester board

How is the box of most common used components going?

18:20 You mentioned maybe having a database of readings for diagnostic purposes just then, what about perhaps having a simple diagnostic app developed whereby you could select your device and do things like select symptoms/enter information like readings etc for it to return a list of possible causes? If you're having a database developed anyway, all you'd need is the app frontend and that's a relatively simple task? Hell, you could even charge a couple dollars for the app if it's a public app to help pay for the costs of running the backend stuff unless you're gonna host it yourself. Enough people wanna use the app, assuming you're making a public app, and it could be pretty profitable as there's absolutely nothing like that available on any mobile platform. None of that matters if it's for your store use

I would create a little microcontroller circuit, spit all the values out to screen or computer then into a db...

@northridgeFix, do you usually check your emails asking for repair quotes ?

Hello there 😁

what alcohol did you used on cleaning PCB?

Yesterday the same tester was delivered after a long wait and it came broken, the bad part its that it's not repairable since some of the pins got pulled out if the port.

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Where did u get that all the database sir??

Don’t forget that there are 4 versions of the Switch out there(erista v1,v2, mariko, switch lite).

Tin the test pads, they seem to scratch easily, needs a bit of protection, they will soon wear out!

@NorthridgeFix Any change you can find a test board for HDMI ports?

Form Bangladesh 🇧🇩

If I only knew what kind of flux you are using. It’s been a couple of videos since I heard. LOL

anyone able to link me to where everyone is working on a doc with all these good readings?

now i know this music not intentionally. its his rington, N1

Which dm model you having sir ?.

What is the temperature of your soldering tip?

Like , 💯

I feel you speak arabic تحية من لبنان 🙏🙏

ваш тестер метер в режиме диод мод и других режимах. может подключатся к компьютеру? если да, возможно былобы лудше вывести эти показания прямо на канал записи. в любом виде переключения камер тест метер бы показывал то что вы меряете.

I've never seen you using Oscilloscope.

Hello, I got no reading on A7. Any clue what it could be?

Nice buddy, Based on the info you captured a tester can be made that acts similar to the "tri star tester" 🤔

❤which use wick

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I've tried to get a quote for repair from your website for a week now without a response. Any help?

Colas with mr carlsons lab he prob would be able to make a automatic tester to just plug in

for removing solder from holes you can max the air and aim heater nozzle on that hole

These data will end up as device like tristar tester

i I have used Luxorparts IpaClean isopropanol 99.5% To wash away flux after soldering. I can not wash away flux well. I like to wash everything away without getting a thin film of flux Do you have any experience? Acetone is good but can wash away writing on components!

If such a device is not already available, and If those measurements over several Devices prove to always point to the correct fault, then those test points "Data or readings" gleaned from several broken devices can be used for a "comparative microcontroller", so with the "comparator microcontroller" you can plug a broken device into it, and as the broken devices readings match previously identified faults, your tester will display the matched fault.. APU I dropped a Like.. Err- 👍

Wonder if one could make a switch specific 'light up green led' variant of the board, to no longer have to use the multimeter and save time...

You can post that data on your website

Can you teach us some of your native language during the vids? Some easy words maybe? We are watching for you and your personality, why not know your language too? Not sure if "Hiroshima bomb" will sound as good translated but we will see! 😂

what is faster .. .to test every point on two sides using a breakout board ... or to look in to the port and find damaged pins ? but yes this board was able to tell it without us looking in to the charging port 😂

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Very cumbersome. Not exciting. Happened first time.

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